New Coronavirus Safety Measures Pose Challenges for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing

April 29, 2020

(NPR) – The new norms of the coronavirus era — wearing face masks, maintaining social distance and conducting conversations through teleconference software — have made life more complicated for most Americans. But for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, they have transformed every day tasks into technological labyrinths, and exposed a number of inequities in local health and government systems.